Bid On Ted Williams’ Mounted Head…Sort Of

According to a release on PR INSIDE, on Nov. 23, you can bid on a treasure trove of Ted Williams’ personal effects as part of the estate sale of his third wife, Dolores Wettach. And no, you can’t bid on his head. At least not his own, personal, cryogenically-frozen head.

Ted Williams

However, you can bid on several heads of big game that the renowed hunter killed in his lifetime, including: a Greater Kudu, two Sable Antelope, and a Cape Buffalo. Also, you can bid on the head of Bambi’s mother, which few people know Williams also shot and killed.

But it’s not just Williams’ stuff that is of interest. Wettach was also an avid fisherman, and one of the items you can bid on is a marlin that, at the time, was a world record for its class. Sadly, it doesn’t sing when you press a button, greatly diminishing its current value.

Wettach, now 73, had two children with Williams: daughter Claudia and late son John Henry, most well-known for having his father’s head frozen (possibly against his wishes) and having his dad pull some strings to get him a minor-league baseball contract despite never having played.

It’s hard to say that Wettach hasn’t lived a colorful life. Along with her marriage to Williams and fishing records, she was a beauty queen who was named “Miss Congeniality” in the 1956 Miss Universe contest, and a model who was named by TIME in 1961 as one of the “new wave” of models, possessing real curves instead of stick figures - think Joan from Mad Men. In other words, quite the brickhouse.

One comment

  1. GravatarMcLane
    5:24 pm on September 29th, 2008

    Teddy ball game's head is five minutes from my office.  The dude who works there has a Star Trek license plate holder,  one of the gnarliest beards I've ever seen, and drives a rusted 87 Chevy Celebrity.

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